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Others elected last month to serve as officers for the 1996-97 year are Jean C. Powers, J.D. '79, an attorney, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, first vice president; Jay Friedman, B.A. '86, manager, Food & Vending Services at UB, vice president for athletics; Beverly Foit-Albert, M.A. '75, partner with Foit-Albert Associates, vice president for constituent associations; Susan J. Grelick, M.L.S. '78, M.A. '80, MBA '82, Amherst town clerk, vice president for finance; Donald C. Roberts, B.A. '93, insurance executive, Potter, Harris & Scherrer, vice president for membership and marketing, and Therese M. Wegler, B.A. '90, senior executive assistant to Assemblyman Robin Schim-minger, vice president for student relations.

BEREZNEY NAMED CHAIR OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Ronald Berezney, a cell and molecular biologist and professor of biological sciences at UB, has been appointed chair of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Berezney has pioneered basic research on the nuclear matrix-the internal structure of the cell nucleus-and is internationally recognized as a leader in the field.

During the 1970s, he was the first researcher to propose the idea that the nucleus has an intricate structure that affects replication of genetic information and other genetic processes.

Berezney's research has been continually supported since 1977 by the National Institutes of Health.

He has authored or co-authored more than 60 research and review articles, which have resulted in more than 5,000 citations in Citation Index. He is preparing an invited article on the nuclear matrix for Scientific American.

A faculty member since 1975, Berezney earned a doctorate from Purdue University and graduated magna cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

AWARD HONORS CAREER PLANNING & PLACEMENT
UB's Career Planning and Placement Office has been honored with the 1996 Award for Excellence in Programming by the State University of New York Career Development Organization, Inc.

The award, presented at the organization's conference in June, was given for the department's Internet Home Page, in recognition of the development of a new and or innovative program among four-year colleges, University Centers and specialized colleges.

Judith C. Applebaum, senior associate and the Home Page's creator, accepted the award on behalf of the office. The Home Page assists UB students and alumni who are seeking employment, continuing their education or making career decisions as well as employers who are seeking job candidates. The Home Page has been accessed more than 10,000 times in six months. The Internet address is http://wings. buffalo.edu/employment.

DELBALSO NAMED CHAIRMAN OF RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Angelo M. DelBalso, UB associate professor of radiology, was recently appointed chairman of the Department of Radiology at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. An expert in the area of head and neck imaging, he is also director of radiology at the Erie County Medical Center.

DelBalso is also an associate professor in the School of Dental Medicine. He earned his D.D.S., M.D., and a master's degree in pharmacology from UB.

A colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, he is chief of radiology with the 865th U.S. Army Reserve General Hospital, Niagara Falls.

Before entering medical school, he was a research dental officer at the U.S. Army Institute of Dental Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation from medical school, he entered the U.S. Navy. He was chief medical officer on the U.S.S. Sumter during operations north of the Arctic Circle. Del Balso left the Navy in 1984 with the rank of commander, returning to Buffalo in 1985 as director of maxillofacial imaging at the UB School of Dental Medicine. In 1991 he became interim chairman of radiology at UB.

A past president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, DelBalso has authored Maxillofacial Imaging, considered the standard facial imaging reference text, as well as numerous articles on head and neck imaging.

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ANNOUNCES STAFF CHANGES
Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for international education, has announced staff changes for the Office of International Education.

Jionardi Hindrawan has been named assistant vice provost for international education. A staff member since 1990, he most recently was program development officer. His new responsibilities include management and logistic support for the Stamford Malaysian Program and recruitment of international students.

Sandra Reinagle has been named director of Study Abroad Programs. She previously had served as an international student advisor and as interim Study Abroad coordinator. A UB graduate, she was a Study Abroad student in London and has visited UB's Asian exchange programs.

Helen Stevens has been named director of International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS). With UB since 1988, she was associate director of ISSS and has served as interim director since last August. Before coming to UB, she was director of International Student Services and Programs at Florida State University and assistant director of International Programs at the University of Kentucky.

ERNST & YOUNG GIFT AIDS ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
The UB School of Management has received a $6,410 gift to support the school's Department of Accounting and Law from Ernst & Young LLP, a worldwide public-accounting firm. Part of the Ernst & Young Matching Gifts Program, the gift brings this year's total support to UB from the firm to $12,820.

Michael J. Murray, a partner in the Buffalo office and a coordinator for the firm's fund-raising efforts, presented the gift on behalf of Ernst & Young to Victor Pastena, chair of the department.

In addition to the matching-gifts program, Ernst & Young provides doctoral-level grants in accounting, sponsors professorships and faculty fellowships, and offers accounting internship opportunities.

HIGHER ED SEMINARS BEGIN SEPT. 13
The role of higher education in meeting the needs of today's changing world will be among topics addressed this fall by national educators participating in the Higher Education Breakfast Seminar Series.

The series, in its 18th year and presented by the WNY Higher Education Consortium, is coordinated by William C. Barba, UB assistant professor of educational organization, administration and policy.

The programs will be held from 8-10 a.m. at sites in the Buffalo area. Cost for each program and a continental breakfast, is $5.

The series opens Sept. 13 in the Center for Tomorrow with a presentation by Ted Marchese, vice president of the American Association of Higher Education, the nation's largest higher-education association. Marchese has been editor since 1982 of Change, most widely read magazine in higher education.

The series continues Nov. 22, in Moot Hall at Buffalo State College with a lecture by Helen S. Astin, professor of higher education and associate director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. Astin and her husband, Sandy, are known for developing profiles of entering freshmen for institutions of higher education. She is a former president of the American Psychological Association's Division on the Psychology of Women.

PHARMACY PROFESSOR NAMED DEPARTMENT CHAIR, RECEIVES NIH GRANT
Gene D. Morse, associate professor of pharmacy at UB, has been named chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy. With more than $1.5 million in grant support from industry and government, Morse is a leader in the design and analysis of new clinical trials for AIDS treatments.

He directs the UB Laboratory for Antiviral Research and the Antiviral Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory Unit in the Immunodeficiency Clinic at the Erie County Medical Center, the only facility in the Buffalo area that offers pharmacologic research protocols for HIV-infected patients.

Morse was recently awarded a four-year, $306,014 grant by the National Institutes of Health to establish an Advanced Technology Laboratory for antiretroviral pharmacology research. The new laboratory will be housed in the UB Laboratory for Antiviral Research. With the grant, the laboratory will participate in the NIH's AIDS Clinical Trials Group, which coordinates multicenter clinical trials for evaluating new AIDS therapies. Co-investigators are research associate Mark Shelton and post-doctoral fellow John Adams, who recently received an American College of Clinical Pharmacy fellowship.

Morse is a fellow in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, highest honor the group confers upon members. A UB faculty member since 1983, he holds a joint appointment as a research associate professor of medicine and has been an adjunct associate professor of nursing.

Morse received a bachelor's degree from the State University at Albany and bachelor's and doctoral degrees in pharmacy from UB.

CIMINELLI NAMED EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR
Frank L. Ciminelli, chief executive officer of Ciminelli Development Company, Inc., has been named the 1996 Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year by the UB School of Management.

The award, recognizing executive success, civic leadership and high personal integrity, will be presented at the 47th annual School of Management Alumni Association Awards banquet, to be held Sept. 25 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

Ciminelli has been affiliated with numerous community organizations, including the Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation Board, the Bishop's Lay Advisory Council and the UB Foundation, Inc.

LABOR DEPT ADVISED ABOUT CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
The state Labor Department has been advised that full asbestos containment procedures may not have been followed by a private contractor involved in an elevator rehabilitation project on the South Campus.

The situation occurred during the spring semester when employees of the contractor were removing the elevator's door frames in Hayes Hall. It only recently came to the attention of the university's Office of Environmental Health and Safety.

While containment procedures were being followed by the contractor, they may not have been sufficient to prevent the release of asbestos into the air. However, based on the containment procedures that were in place and subsequent air samplings, it is unlikely that faculty, staff, students or visitors to the building were exposed to asbestos, according to the Office of Environmental Health and Safety. Nor was there any known health risk or effect associated with the situation.

Faculty, staff and students in the School of Architecture and Planning, informed of the work prior to its commencement, were advised of the possible lapse in containment procedures during a school-wide meeting on Monday.

CONFERENCE ON CHINA, DELAYED SEVEN YEARS, TAKES PLACE IN VIENNA
A conference delayed for seven years due to the uprising in Tiananmen Square, took place July 8-10 in Vienna, Austria, according to a report by Constantine Tung, UB associate professor of Modern Languages and Literatures. Tung had planned a Sino-American conference on Chinese American war literatures for October 1989 with 13 Chinese writers and critics expected to take part; but the June 1989 events ended all plans.

The 1996 conference, planned by Tung and Dr. Gerd Kaminiski, director of Austria's Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, was titled, "China's Perception of Peace, War and the World: A Multidisciplinary Symposium." It was held in the Austrian Military Academy, Vienna, jointly sponsored by the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, with support from the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, the Sohman-China Foundation (Vienna) and the Austrian Association for China Research.

Kerry Grant, Dean of the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters joined with Austria's Minister of Defense, Dr. Werner Fasslabend, presiding and speaking at the conference's opening ceremony. Panelists were from the U.S., Austria, China and Germany. UB participants included Tung, Grant, and Junhao Hong, assistant professor of communications.